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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me"
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This thread was inspired by something I heard last Thursday. I was on a coach going with my Religious Studies class to a Hindu, and then a Buddhist temple. While we were on the way two girls sitting in front of me and my friend started chatting. At first I didn't bother listening, and started talking to my friend about how Johnny Depp hasn't been in a good film for ages, and how his career is going down hill. But I heard one of the two girls in front mention The Hobbit. As a big Lord of the Rings fan (of both the books and film) I stopped my discussion and started listening.
At first the girl was moaning about how long the film was going to be and how she was really not looking forward to going to watch it with her boyfriend it because it was going to be almost three hours long. Me and my friend made eye contact, amused. Her friend then asked her 'so what is it about?' and no word of lie this is how she replied:
'It's about Bilbo (pronounced by her as bib-lee-oh) Baggins, you know, Frodo's dad.'
At this point the look on both me and my friends face was a mixture of shock, amazement, indignation and a kind of joy. But she went on:
'Oh and that gremlin creature is in it, you know the one that looks like Dobby, but isn't. Yeah I hated him, actually I didn't, I felt really sorry for him'.
At this point I was laughing so hard she turned around and asked if I was laughing at her, and I said I was and apologized. Even now I can't think about 'Bib-lee-oh Baggins, you know, Frodo's dad' without smiling.
Have you guys heard any conversations that made you laugh?